twitter.com/HKWT

Favourite Barbados beaches, summer in the UK with the kids, tips on cruising in St Lucia - we want this Barbados-based mum's life. In lieu of that, we'll follow her on Twitter. She recently launched Have Kids Will Travel, a family-friendly travel site.

PERSONAL JOURNEYS TO FOLLOW

twitter.com/bnorty

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Parents and three children are sailing around the world starting in July. This UK-based account links to a professional-looking site detailing the preparations, motivations and route. Don’t miss the cool videos like the one showing their water safety training. Sign up to sail along with them and join the conversation.

twitter.com/soultravelers3

This family has been travelling world since 2006. It’s a hodgepodge of helpful and interesting RTs on all sorts of topics. We’d like more observations about the places they are on their travels, interestingly enough. This one’s very folksy and very popular.

twitter.com/thefutureisred

This yoga-loving artist and "mom" is "Traveling the World One Day at a Time". A friendly feed with lots of personal comments, recommendations to other groovy Twitterers and advice for travelling the world.

KEEP WATCHING

twitter.com/Joner

This British feed, associated with the newly created www.havealovelytime.com, posts links to travel photo blogs, posts and lots of personal responses. The tweeter is plugged in to the UK mummy blogging world and already has a slew of followers.

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

twitter.com/twokidsandamap

“Traveling the world with two kids and sharing our stories!” is how they bill this Twitter feed associated with the US blog http://twokidsandamap.blogspot.com/. Sounds promising, until you get to advice such as “5 things...to take camping with your toddlers”. The suggestions include, er, bug spray, pillows and toys to play with outside. Gee, thanks.

twitter.com/littlenomads

Done by the family travel blogger behind the www.littlenomads.com site, this feeds not quite travel, not quite personal, not quite techie. Feels a bit like walking into a conversation that's already underway.

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